Fade to Silence
As the player you take the role of Ash, a natural but tormented leader. In that role you explore a post-apocalyptic, frozen wasteland to gather the resources necessary to establish a refuge for survival. With…
Fade to Silence is an adventure developed by Black Forest Games, released 30 April 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Fade to Silence is
Fade to Silence is an adventure game developed by Black Forest Games and released in 2018. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You’re out hunting. The barren, snow-filled landscape is endless and unrelenting. A Ripper comes out of nowhere, and you fight it off, narrowly dodging its gigantic claws. Then you see it: a distant fire. Another person? Impossible. But there’s a strange noise—a voice? Wild hope sears your heart; you won’t be alone anymore. The voice in your head steps in, discouraging you from investigating. “Anyone living must have done terrible things to survive”, it says. You quiet the voice, defying it this time, and move in closer. Another person could help you rebuild, gather food, harvest deer. You see someone—yes! Someone else is out here. Then, you hear a scream. But you hesitate. How can you…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Fade to Silence holds a critic score of 42 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 27 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Fade to Silence launched on 30 April 2018, within three weeks of God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk and The Forest. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War, God of War (2018), Frostpunk, The Forest.
Official trailer
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